Daddy

Jenny's father, Pit, turns up at her door step, completely out of the blue. It has been two years since she and her brother Marco left him. Pit never really took care of them anyway, his job always came first. Now he is old and alone and wants to make up for lost time, but it is too late. Jenny leads her own life, and Marco has found himself a new "Daddy". As a gay hustler he met the well-off architect Julian, who fell in love with him and wants them to live together. Silvie, Julian’s wife, finds herself in the wreckage of a bourgeois existence. While the TV is broadcasting reports about the German army in Afghanistan, she and the others desperately try to put the shattered fragments of their existence back together. But what seems broken now may have never been whole in the first place.

"Habermehl pushes aside any kind of reassurance, any attempt to pander to current hot-button issues.... Daddy is a forceful political piece, particularly because it dwells on the private sphere. Her characters are broken by the circumstances of their lives. But also because they doom themselves with neediness for love and warmth. To that purpose, Habermehl constructs several sharply drafted dialogues... It's a great evening in the theatre thanks to its power to make the audience reflect acrimoniously upon their own lives.» (Süddeutsche Zeitung)